Q 01/05

Critics say Guts's oversized sword in Berserk started a trend that reached which Final Fantasy hero?

A) Squall Leonhart

B) Zidane Tribal

C) Cloud Strife

D) Lightning

Answer · why

C) Cloud Strife

Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy VII is the best-known heir to the giant blade, a trend critics also trace to Dante of Devil May Cry and Ichigo of Bleach...

Q 02/05

Which film antihero did Kentaro Miura cite as an inspiration for the rage-driven Guts in Berserk?

A) Snake Plissken

B) Judge Dredd

C) The Terminator

D) Mad Max

Answer · why

D) Mad Max

Mad Max gave Guts his rage, and Miura said a dark hero burning for revenge is what made Berserk feel like the right title.

Q 03/05

Which action role-playing game series is said to borrow its monsters and bleak world from Berserk?

A) Dark Souls

B) Monster Hunter

C) The Witcher

D) Darksiders

Answer · why

A) Dark Souls

Dark Souls owes its monsters and world to the Berserk aesthetic, and the debt carries into the same studio's later games Bloodborne and Elden Ring.

Q 04/05

Which film did Berserk creator Kentaro Miura name as his favorite, saying it taught him how to tell stories?

A) Seven Samurai

B) Star Wars

C) The Godfather

D) Spartacus

Answer · why

B) Star Wars

Star Wars, the 1977 original, was his favorite film, and Miura said George Lucas taught him the fundamentals of storytelling.

Q 05/05

What is the name of the enormous sword Guts wields as the Black Swordsman in Berserk?

A) Buster Sword

B) Dragon Slayer

C) Tessaiga

D) Sword of Omens

Answer · why

B) Dragon Slayer

The Dragon Slayer got its size from two things Miura combined: the hero's blade in the manga Pygmalio and a drawing of a giant with a sword in a Guin ...